wilde@tigger.colorado.edu (Nick Wilde) (02/28/89)
2 questions, one software, one hardware :
Software - Is it possible to create your own "Keymap" files ? How ?
Hardware - Is it possible to hook a 2000 to an Apple Mac II color
monitor ? If so, how ? Do I have to create a special cable ?
Thanx.deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) (02/28/89)
You can create your own keymap files with the "Edimap" program posted to comp.binaries.amiga a while back. All the diagnostics are in French, (!) but it works nicely. I created a keymap like usa1 but with the keypad sending vt100-type sequences. It works rather well. Edimap should be available from some archive site somewhere, but I can't think of where, offhand. Try swan.ulowell.edu and xanth.cs.odu.edu for starters. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (03/01/89)
In article <6986@boulder.Colorado.EDU> (Nick Wilde) writes: >Software - Is it possible to create your own "Keymap" files ? How ? Yes, the format is documented in the Rom Kernel Manual. It isn't particularly easy for a novice though. >Hardware - Is it possible to hook a 2000 to an Apple Mac II color > monitor ? If so, how ? Do I have to create a special cable ? No it isn't. The Mac II color monitor uses a different scan rate. Often times people confuse the display capabilities of the computer with the capability of the monitor. Specifically, no matter what monitor you hook to an Amiga, it will still only be able to display 640 X 400 in interlace (aka with flicker) and 640 X 200 without. [Note that numbers are about 10% higher than that if you use overscan.] Or to put it another way, one can't get Mac II resolution by using a Mac II monitor, you have to change the internal display hardware. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.